engineering

Ability? Absolutely. Opportunity? Nope.

But how do we know if they can code? This is the key anxiety a software organization faces when evaluating a potential hire. At HuffPost Engineering, we've tried to turn this question on its head -- and for the most part, eliminate it.

Remember how irrational numbers petrified the bejesus out of the Pythagoreans? Or the interminable time it took mankind to introduce a zero into arithmetic? Recall the centuries of debate that occurred over whether negative numbers are valid or not?

So what do we Gen Y Scientistas really want? We want people to stop telling us that we aren't innately interested in science. We want to be able to form study groups in our male dominated classes without being left out. We want to be able to do research not in isolation.